They planned to shoot 19-year-old Saba Qaiser in the head, put her body in a bag, and dump it in the river. It’s pure luck that they didn’t succeed. Saba was wounded but not dead, and managed to drag herself…
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Pahela Baishakh accused ‘sex offender’ remanded
Dhaka – A court n Dhaka on Thursday placed Mohammad Kamal, arrested in connection with the sexual harassment of several women during Pahela Baishakh celebrations on the Dhaka University campus last year, on a two-day remand. Dhaka Metropolitan Magistrate Abdullah…
Rural women behind community climate resilience in Africa
Small farmers – mainly women – produce 80% of the food in Africa on just 14.7% of the agricultural land, and control 80% of the seeds produced and exchanged on small farms. The African Biodiversity Network, Gaia Foundation and African…
Saudi Arabia elects first female politicians
At least four women elected to municipal councils in Saudi Arabia’s first poll open to female voters and candidates. At least four women have won seats in Saudi Arabia’s municipal polls, the country’s first-ever elections open to female voters and…
Votes counted after historic Saudi poll allowing women
Votes are being counted in Saudi Arabia’s municipal elections, in which women were allowed for the first time to cast their ballots. Officials said about 130,000 women had registered to vote in Saturday’s poll, compared with 1.35 million of men.
Marriageable age for girls remains 18
State Minister for Women and Children Affairs Meher Afroze Chumki on Friday said the government is not going to lower the minimum age of marriage for girls from 18.
Mother milk project starts
icddr,b, in collaboration with Interfab Shirt Manufacturing Limited (ISML), on Thursday launched ‘Mother’s Milk project’ which will enable women to take home pasteurized breast milk that stays safe for eight hours.
Women can do works maintaining decency: Hasina
Emphasising that women must create their own fate and personal destiny, Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina on Wednesday said women can do all outside works maintaining decency as religion Islam gives them that liberty.
Women more diverse in sexual response
Exploring sexual identity, sexual attraction and sexual arousal in women, new research shows that heterosexual women have more diverse patterns of sexual response than previously reported.In the first study, women watched short videos, and in the second study, women listened…
HC asks for arrest of hospital staff for sexual abuse
The High Court on Thursday directed the Gulshan thana police to arrest United Hospital staff (brother) Saiful Islam and produce him before the court on December 7 for ‘sexually harassing’ a female patient. It also issued a rule asking the…
In Zimbabwe’s scourge of child marriage
Birgit Schwarz At 14, Justine firmly believed that the world was her oyster and the future hers to shape and conquer. She was bright and her mother made enough money as a seamstress to send her to a decent public…
Establish rights of disabled women, seminar told
A National Seminar on “Rights of Disabled Woman and Child 2015” was held on Wednesdayat the Biduyt Bhaban, Bijoy Hall, Abdul Gani Road, Dhaka. The objective of seminar was to focus to promote the focus for making the rights real…
A Women Community Leader: How It Happened
Written by-Mazeda A. Uddin How did you learn community leadership skills in your society?
BD Army became enriched with first female pilots
Bangladesh Army has set an institutional milestone by enrolling two female officers for its aviation basic course for the first time after they successfully conducted solo and dual flying modules as trainee pilots at Tejgaon Old airport runway on Wednesday.
Bd Women Chamber chief Selima Ahmad gets int’l award
The International Alliance for Women (TIAW) has announced Selima Ahmad, vice chairperson of Nitol Niloy Group and president of Bangladesh Women Chamber of Commerce and Industry (BWCCI), as the recipient of the TIAW World of Difference Lifetime Achievement Award-2014-2015. The…
“Grammen Narira Shohora Kmon Asa” by BD Human Rights Imp Association
Ninety three percent women who have come from different villages of the country want to go back villages if minimum facilities especially the surety of the work places and the sources of income can be ensured then they would like…
Eating ‘on the go’ could make you fat
Dieters who eat while performing other activities such as walking or watching television may increase their food intake later in the day which could lead to weight gain and obesity, says a new study.”Eating on the go may make dieters…
Nearing milestone, Queen Elizabeth shows no sign of stepping aside
After 63 years on the throne, Queen Elizabeth next month becomes Britain’s longest-ruling monarch but there is little prospect of her stepping aside, as other ageing European crowned heads have done, in favour of her son, Charles.
Anti sexual harassment forum set up at RU
Seminar entitled “Say No to Sexual Harassment: Case Based Discussion Meeting” under the project of “Building Institutional Capacity of selected four universities to prevent violence against women” held on Monday at the Law department of Rajshahi University (RU) to increase…
Google morphs into Alphabet; investors cheer clarity
Google Inc announced a surprise overhaul of its operating structure on Monday, creating a holding company called Alphabet to pool its many subsidiaries and separate the core web advertising business from newer ventures like driverless cars.The move appeared to be…
Insight: Tesla burns cash, loses more than $4,000 on every car sold It’s crunch time for Tesla Motors.
The Silicon Valley automaker is losing more than $4,000 on every Model S electric sedan it sells, using its reckoning of operating losses, and it burned $359 million in cash last quarter in a bull market for luxury vehicles.The company…
Yet another college girl gang-raped in capital
Yet another college girl was gang-raped by miscreants in the city’s Jatrabari area on Tuesday noon. Sub-inspector of Jatrabari Police Station Abdullah Biswas said the 20-year-old girl along with her boyfriend came to the house of one of the acquaintances…
Women poisons two daughters, herself to death in Barguna?
A woman allegedly committed suicide after killing her two daughters at Lemua village in Sadar upazila on Saturday night. The deceased were identified as Roji Akter, wife of Ruman Panchayet, and their two daughters Moumi,4, and Tayeba,2.
Officials study plane debris found off Madagascar for links to missing MH370
French authorities are studying a large piece of plane debris found on Reunion Island in the Indian Ocean to determine whether it came from Malaysia Airlines Flight MH370, which vanished last year in one of the biggest mysteries in aviation…
Bolivia is tripling the size of its subway in the sky
Bolivia already has the largest urban cable car system in the world. Now the booming country is tripling the size of the network and will soon have nine lines whizzing above the administrative capital of La Paz.The Andean city of…
Ancient Hindu temple found built on Buddhist shrine in Bangladesh’s Dinajpur
A Hindu temple sits firmly on the remains of a Buddhist shrine in Dinajpur in an awe-inspiring sight that testifies to the conquest by Hindus of Buddhists at Barendra – a region in ancient north Bengal.Buddhist monasteries and Viharas had…
Sherpur woman stripped during arbitration
In an undeliverable incident of humiliation, a young housewife was allegedly stripped naked during arbitration at Shapmari village in Sadar upazila on Friday. Upset at the utter humiliation, the victim filed a case against four people with Sadar Police Station…
Hackers threaten to leak Ashley Madison’s 37 million clients
Hackers claim to have personal details of more than 37 million cheating spouses on dating website Ashley Madison and have threatened to release nude photos and sexual fantasies of the site’s clients unless it is shut down, blog KrebsOnSecurity reported.…
Female bosses make male employees uneasy: Research
Men may feel threatened by female bosses and act more assertively towards them than male supervisors, new research says.The study published in the journal Society for Personality and Social Psychology said that such behaviour by male employees working with female…
Small is beautiful, say South Koreans planning to marry
The night before their wedding, Kim Kwang-yoon and Cho Jin-oh were up until 2 am with the bride’s mother, setting tables. Their marriage venue: a room in the basement of Seoul city hall, rented from the government for $60.